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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
Steve Buscemi
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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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Firefighter
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Steven Vincent Buscemi
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Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
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I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.
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Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.
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I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.
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Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
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When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
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